John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 19, 2020

Zoom Video Communications , a fast-growing enterprise videoconferencing platform with roots in both Silicon Valley and China, had already seen its market cap grow from under $10 billion to nearly double that. Large corporations, state governments, and school districts banned the company’s products.

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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2018

The newly updated EU GDPR Compliance Gap Assessment Tool identifies ten key areas that your organisation should analyse to establish its current stance against the requirements: Governance – awareness of the leadership team, management and functional management. For example, do you have a GDPR project team?

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2020

Fed up of seeing your colleagues’ children during video conferences? One in four people in the UK have an existing mental health condition , and forcing people to remain indoors, with only one form of state-sanctioned outdoor exercise as a reprieve, is no doubt going to exacerbate our problems. How’s working from home going?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 19, 2012

A couple of days ago Google released its latest “ Transparency Report ,” part of the company’s ongoing commitment to disclose requests by individuals, corporations, and governments to change what users see in search results and other Google properties such as YouTube. Online, many of us view Facebook as our identity service.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As Singapore moves towards living with COVID-19 as an endemic disease, the Government has issued guidance for employers on the COVID-19 measures to be implemented at the workplace. For example, deploy crowd management solutions that only detect or measure distances between human figures, without collecting facial images.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared. The attacker might, for example, search social media to find the name, email address and job title of a company director. Hurry up!”.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

The governments of the world wanted the quick and agile minds of children who could think three dimensional -- and without all that moralizing about killing, you know, space aliens. The flipside is, you create as a good example over here, what happens is somebody's attacking my country. How do I find and go through?

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

The adoption of mutually trusted technology can assist businesses, customers, partners and government authorities in verifying the existence, authenticity and integrity of interactions among parties. It can simplify the management of licenses, certificates, educational records and property ownership rights for government organizations.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Banks must still be allowed to process data to prevent fraud; regulators must still be allowed to process data to investigate malpractice and corruption; sports governing bodies must be allowed to process data to keep the cheats out; and journalists must still be able to investigate scandal and malpractice. change it substantially.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Last year, at least some of the sizeable attacks were attributed to a malware variant named Mirai , which commandeered various internet-enabled digital video recorders (DVRs), cameras, and other IoT devices and was then utilized by attackers to launch multiple high-profile, high-impact DDoS attacks against various Internet properties and services.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 13, 2022

People spend money – often tens of thousands of pounds – to own a digital file, such as a photo or video. Whether you think the exercise is a waste of money (or perhaps even an ecological issue ) or harmless fun, one thing is for sure: NFTs demonstrate the vulnerability of owning digital assets. Get started.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It was only deployed for a limited period, for a specific purpose, and was publicized before its use (for example, on Facebook and Twitter). The final requirement under Section 35(5) of the DPA 2018 was that there be an appropriate policy document in place to govern the processing.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

d) refrain from inhibiting business users from raising concerns about unfair behavior by gatekeepers, for example through confidentiality clauses. However, the German government issued a statement earlier today saying that it will “work to ensure that national and European digital rules complement each other well.”

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

I've written before about what's involved in verifying data breaches and it's often a non-trivial exercise. This provided a means of implementing guidance from government and industry bodies alike , but it also provided individuals with a repository they could check their own passwords against.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I read this while wandering around in LA on my way home from sitting in front of US Congress and explaining security principles to a government so it felt like a timely opportunity to share my own view on the matter: This illustrates a fundamental lack of privacy and security education. What's the Problem Credential Sharing is Solving?

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And just a side-note before I jump into those fundamentals: I had a quick flick through the government's eSafety guidance for children under 5 whilst on the plane and it has a bunch of really good stuff. For example, my son teaching kids to code in London a couple of weeks ago: Teaching kids to code at #NDCLondon with @CodeCombat.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Cerf has chaired, formed, and participated in countless working groups, governing bodies, and scientific, technological, and academic organizations. For that, however, you just might want to view the video , embedded above. —- John Battelle Vint, thank you so much for being here. These are startling inventions.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, I was regularly asked if I'd ever received any legal threats which is apparently pretty normal for any M&A process, but you can imagine why it'd be particularly interesting when dealing with a heap of data originally obtained via illegal methods. of the company.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2021

To make matters even worse for the platform, a security researcher was able to collect more than 70 terabytes, which equals 70,000 gigabytes, of Parler users’ messages, videos, audio, and all other activity. For example, this FAQ suggests that users without a verified account will be unable to send private messages. Highlights.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

And there are the governments around the world using it to protect their departments , the law enforcement agencies leveraging it for their investigations and all sorts of other use cases I never, ever saw coming (my legitimisation of HIBP post from last year has a heap of other examples).

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

In extreme examples, some people have formed close, perhaps even familial, bonds with AI chatbots. And the government has applied virtually no regulation toward those ends. The single biggest point of leverage governments have when it comes to tech companies is antitrust law. We, the people and our government, can do this too.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started with the seven commandments , or steps, laid out in a 2018 New York Times opinion video series on "Operation Infektion," a 1980s Russian disinformation campaign. For campaigns that just try to weaken collective trust in government's institutions, lots of cracks will do. Facebook is already making moves in this direction.

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